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... the MovieObject.bdmv file to AI to see if it could find the correct playlist. It seems to have worked.

The answer is definitively 00043.mpls.
Here ... scatters references across a wide variety of playlists — that's the obfuscation noise. But when you look at MovieObjects 13 through 29, which are the ...

... few years back. In that case it was the movie LaLa Land with full on obfuscation - maybe spread over a dozen files - and I was definitely taking notes of m2ts files (not a playlist) as it played and I skipped ahead. It was almost certainly Leawo but maybe an earlier version did things differently and ...

John Wick 1 - 3 Blu-ray — BD-J / MPLS Obfuscation Scan Results

I ran my disc-analysis pipeline against the three John Wick Blu-rays to compare how each release handles BD-J playlist obfuscation. Posting the results in case they're useful to anyone tracking how Lionsgate's protection has evolved ...

John Wick 1 - 3 Blu-ray — BD-J / MPLS Obfuscation Scan Results

I ran my disc-analysis pipeline against the three John Wick Blu-rays to compare how each release handles BD-J playlist obfuscation. Posting the results in case they're useful to anyone tracking how Lionsgate's protection has evolved ...

Overview
Playlist obfuscation is a tool used by disc-makers to make ripping harder than it otherwise would be. This is done by creating a number (often in the hundreds) of "fake" playlists that run the original movie's clips, just in a jumbled order. As such, the playlist duration and file size ...

Hi, I am seeing playlist obfuscation with regards to Still Walking. Hundreds of duplicate files. Any help?

... Club_t198.mkv

Note: "t198" is dependent on your MakeMKV settings, but the Source file name and Segment map should match.

There is only 1 playlist for the movie on the DVD, so I checked the blu-ray PGS subtitles against the DVD VOBSUB subtitles and they match.

I believe this is a standard ...

... BD ripped normally. The movie is one large file. This is not a playlist obfuscation issue. I can play it just fine in VLC.

In DCP-O-MATIC I add the one and only file and look at it and the video is from a "making of extra" while audio is from the feature.

I go back to the file and open it in ...

... can't properly be fixed with mkvpropedit.

In the case of discs with playlist obfuscation, I note which title I ripped and I keep the backup until I've watched the movie to verify I got the right playlist. If I didn't, it is easy and fast to try again from the backup. You can also manually brute ...

Some discs have playlist obfuscation. It was a tactic some studios used for a time to try to prevent their discs from being ripped as you're about to do.

There's probably a thread on the forum most any disc with this that you'll run into.

Midsommar

Hereditary Blu Ray Playlist Obfuscation

There's ...

Exactly what I was looking for. Thank you much.

excellent info. thanks

On my Blu-ray combo pack copy from Amazon (UPC 031398228110), the correct playlist is 772.mpls.

Title information
Name: The Age of Adaline
Source file name: 00772.mpls
Duration: 1:52:29
Chapters count: 16
Size: 26.6 GB
Segment count: 19
Segment map: 509,505,521,504,503,527,513,512,501,523,510,506 ...

00157.mpls
File name: He Who Gets Slapped_t162.mkv
Segment map: 88871,54255,45105,87559,7425,28659,42872,17109,13464,32697

The theatrical version is as follows:

00146.mpls

Segment map: 65851,25445,44998,86702,70906,29953,27018,73552,2222,48210,12153,89197

File name: title_t12.mkv